An explosion that was apparently targeting a bus carrying prison officials and wardens injured eight people in Western Turkey, Hurriyet Daily News reports. The explosion occurred in a garbage container in the Aegean province of Izmir as the prison bus was passing. The...

Reuters chronicles the rise and fall of Russia’s Otkritie bank, which the Russian central bank bailed out this week. Otkritie, which was Russia’s seventh largest lender and largest private bank, garnered support from within Putin’s inner circle while it...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny published an investigative report alleging Putin has a secret dacha in an area northwest of Saint Petersburg near Russia’s border with Finland, The Moscow Times reports. Navalny’s report came one week after the...